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Integration between ecological and genealogical patterns: Where are we?

Emanuele Serrelli

“Riccardo Massa” Department of Human Sciences - University of Milano Bicocca, ITALYLisbon Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab - Universidade de Lisboa, PORTUGAL

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Ecological patterns are the ones that can be captured by following physical

and chemical flows and cycles.






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Genealogical patterns are those that can be followed and fully captured by following 'bloodlines', related lineages,

and their common ancestry.





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Genealogical patterns are those that can be followed and fully captured by following 'bloodlines', related lineages,

and their common ancestry.

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The sloshing bucket2003

Odling-Smee: niche construction1988

Evolutionary Ecology journal1987

Unfinished Synthesis1985

Vrba: turnover pulse1980

van Valen: Red Queen hp1973

Punctuated Equilibria1972

Lovelock, birth of Earth System Science1967 – 1974

Hutchinson: ecological stage and evolutionary play1965

Orians1962

Hutchinson & MacArthur1959

Odum1953

David Lack1944

Tansley: concept of ecosystem1935

Modern Synthesis1930 – 1930

Lotka1922

neo-Darwinian Synthesis1910 – 1930

Warming, Schimper, Drude1890 – 1900

Darwin's worms1881

Haeckel1866

Origin1859

“By ecology we mean the body of knowledge concerning the economy of

nature, the total relations of the animal to both its inorganic and organic environment; including its friendly and inimical relations with those animals and plants with which it

comes into contact. In a word, all the complex relationships referred to as the

struggle for existence”

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Orians1962


Odum1953

David Lack1944



Lotka1922



Darwin's worms1881

Haeckel1866

Origin1859

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Orians1962


Odum1953

David Lack1944



Lotka1922



Darwin's worms1881

Haeckel1866

Origin1859

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Orians1962


Odum1953

David Lack1944



Lotka1922



Darwin's worms1881

Haeckel1866

Origin1859

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Population genetics “models”

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Loci, alleles, frequencies

zygotes

mutation

selection

?complicationintractability

Hardy-Weinberg eq.

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Orians1962


Odum1953

David Lack1944



Lotka1922



Darwin's worms1881

Haeckel1866

Origin1859

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Orians1962


Odum1953

David Lack1944



Lotka1922



Darwin's worms1881

Haeckel1866

Origin1859

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Orians1962


Odum1953

David Lack1944



Lotka1922



Darwin's worms1881

Haeckel1866

Origin1859

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Orians1962


Odum1953

David Lack1944



Lotka1922



Darwin's worms1881

Haeckel1866

Origin1859

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“It is becoming increasingly apparent that a complete answer to any question should deal with physiological, adaptational and evolutionary aspects of the problem. The evolutionary process of becoming yields the most profound understanding of biological systems at all levels of organization. The non-evolutionary answer to the question of why an animal is abundant in some

parts of its range and rare in others is of necessity incomplete”

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Orians1962


Odum1953

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Lotka1922



Darwin's worms1881

Haeckel1866

Origin1859

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“It is becoming increasingly apparent that a complete answer to any question should deal with physiological, adaptational and evolutionary aspects of the problem. The evolutionary process of becoming yields the most profound understanding of biological systems at all levels of organization. The non-evolutionary answer to the question of why an animal is abundant in some

parts of its range and rare in others is of necessity incomplete”

"Ecology […] has its descriptive generalizations, such as the principle of competitive exclusion, but as in other fields, evolution would seem to be the only real theory of ecology today. Even if one strongly believes in the

action of natural selection it is exceedingly difficult, as Darwin pointed out, to keep it always firmly in mind. Neglect of natural selection in ecological thinking is, therefore, understandable though regretable.

However, its deliberate exclusion in these years following the Darwin centennial would seem to be exceedingly unwise"

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Orians1962


Odum1953

David Lack1944



Lotka1922



Darwin's worms1881

Haeckel1866

Origin1859

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Orians1962


Odum1953

David Lack1944



Lotka1922



Darwin's worms1881

Haeckel1866

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deMenocal, P.B., 2004. African climate change and faunal evolution during the Pliocene–Pleistocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 220(1-2), pp.3–24.

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80-60 KyaRoger Lewin (1996), Le origini dell’uomo moderno, Zanichelli, p. 121 // Bernard Wood 2008

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Hierarchy Theory of evolution

Eldredge 1986

“organisms seem to be both energy conversion machines and reproducing ‘packages’ of genetic information. As such they are

integrated simultaneously into two largely separate, but interacting kinds of general systems” (1986, p. 351)

Eldredge 2003

Niles Eldredge (2008) , “Hierarchies and the Sloshing Bucket: Toward the Unification of Evolutionary Biology”, in Evo Edu Outreach 1 pp. 10–15.

Niles Eldredge (2008) , “Hierarchies and the Sloshing Bucket: Toward the Unification of Evolutionary Biology”, in Evo Edu Outreach 1 pp. 10–15.

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Orians1962


Odum1953

David Lack1944



Lotka1922



Darwin's worms1881

Haeckel1866

Origin1859

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Orians1962


Odum1953

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Lotka1922



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mutation

selection

?complicationintractability

Kylafis, G. & Loreau, M., 2008. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of niche construction for its agent. Ecology letters, 11(10), pp.1072–81.


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Patterns in the natural world are extremely important. [...] They pose both the questions and the answers that

scientists formulate as they seek to describe the world [...]. Science is a search for resonance between mind and natural pattern as we try to answer these questions. (Eldredge 1999,

pp. 4-5)


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Patterns in the natural world are extremely important. [...] They pose both the questions and the answers that

scientists formulate as they seek to describe the world [...]. Science is a search for resonance between mind and natural pattern as we try to answer these questions. (Eldredge 1999,

pp. 4-5)

It is this two-way street [...] that together form the resonance between mind and material nature that is the heart and soul of science. The search for more

accurate depictions and explanations of phenomena already perceived is where most of the serious day-to-day work of science lies. But it is in the learning of new ways to see phenomena that true novelty and creativity come in. Both are vital and in many ways themselves inseparable. Both involve wrestling with patterns in nature-the explanation of agreed-upon

pattern, and the search for new ways of seeing new patterns (Eldredge, cit., p. 16).


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